The Old Devils
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  • Published: 1 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099461050
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $35.00

The Old Devils

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Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
  • Published: 1 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099461050
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995.

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Collected Poems
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All The Blood Within Me
That Uncertain Feeling
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Praise for The Old Devils

A copy should be given out with every bus pass.

John Sutherland, The Times

A brilliant novel. It is sadly comic and comically sad

Anthony Burgess

He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist

John Mortimer

A bloody funny lovely bloody book... A genius at full throttle

Financial Times

In these explicit days, Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable, the literary it man

Sunday Telegraph